In a 5-4 decision today the Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana law allowing for capital punishment in cases of child rape. I can think of nothing on this earth more disturbing and reprehensible than raping a child.
"With respect to the question of moral depravity, is it really true that every person who is convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death is more morally depraved than every child rapist?" —Justice Alito writing in dissent, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia and Thomas joined.
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